“We missed two or three trains and we have to catch the next one. Preferably a high speed one!” Pierre Stefanini, who is responsible at organising the camps at Scripture Union (France), has an interesting way of describing the delay in using the internet to reach young people and the organisation’s involvement in the project […]

“It’s such a wonderful thing, a treasure trove of happiness. It really makes you want to read it!” Marie, a young reader of ZeBible, is full of both enthusiasm and amazement. The Bible is indeed a wonderful thing, even a treasure trove of happiness, but few people investigate it and many know very little about […]

Like many Christian mothers, Ines Ribet, a Protestant, and Elisabeth Terrien, a Catholic, have a strong desire to pass on their faith and the Bible to their children. Why is this such a challenge? “I think that young people see the Bible as fairy stories,” says Ines. She has two daughters, of whom Alice, 14, […]

The project ZeBible, the alternative experience – Web 2.0 development brings two dreams together. One is that of David Bonhomme, director of communications agency Progressif.Media, of conveying the Bible and its message to young people via the internet. And the other is that of the French Bible Society and its partners of extending the ZeBible […]

The Women’s World Day of Prayer focus country in 2013 will be France. In preparation for this UBS Francophone Communications Officer, is producing a three-part report on French Bible Society projects: ZeBible, the alternative experience – Web 2.0 development; the two Bible exhibitions The Bible, Heritage of Humanity; and the Bible in prison: releasing hope and understanding […]

The ZeBible group in Lambersart, near Lille, consists of “an hour of Bible and an hour of pizza,” explains Father Jean-Luc Garin, who set up the group a year ago. Interesting methodology “When I discovered ZeBible (the Youth Bible produced by the French Bible Society/Bibli’O), I realised immediately that it was an excellent tool which […]

20-year-old Marine Peycelon’s favourite Bible story is the one about Ruth. She even chose it as the subject of the animated film that she entered for the competition organised by the French Bible Society as part of the launch of its ZeBible Youth Bible. “What attracts me to Ruth is not the fact that she was […]

By Kerstin Boehm and Katharina Gabor, Austrian Bible Society Immigration is without a doubt one of the hottest topics across Europe. Recent economic pressures have served to further heat up the issue and many people have strong opinions about it. An exhibition by the Austrian Bible Society, which has so far attracted more than 1,500 […]

“Every time I visit the Arctic the people ask me, ‘When will we have the complete Bible?’ Now their question can finally be answered,” says Hart Wiens, director of Scripture translations at the Canadian Bible Society. On June 3, in Iqaluit, the capital of the Nunavut territory, milestones were celebrated as a new cathedral was […]

Some 46,000 copies of ZeBible, the Youth Bible produced by the French Bible Society/Bibli’O, have been distributed since its launch in Paris in May 2011. It has now been launched in Togo. Will it find new success there? It certainly seems to have made a good start. “I’m sure that many of the young people […]